I have no idea how this idea formed in my mind, but a few months ago, I decided that I had to have a buckwheat pillow. After some internet research, I was even more convinced that I needed one. My usual preference for a pillow is something firm, but not too high, and a buckwheat [...]
The Passage by Justin Cronin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Someone give this man an editor! The whole book could have been cut down to half its length. There are pages after pages of needless filler, only making me roll my eyes at all the trite, cliched paragraphs I was actually reading. I know it’s supposed [...]
Yu Shan Ge is a high-end vegetarian restaurant close to the Shandao Temple MRT stop. Even though we took a taxi to it from our hotel, we realized it was actually a walkable distance and walked the way home. After the filling meal we had, walking was a smart choice.
The restaurant itself is nicely decorated [...]
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book was recommended several times as a *good* paranormal romance book to read in the worst paranormal series you’ve ever read thread, but after reading it I’m wondering if maybe I mis-read the thread.It was not the *worst* paranormal romance I’d read, but it certainly [...]
A Song for Lya: And Other Stories by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I wanted to try out George R. R. Martin’s other genre of books, so this novella set in a futuristic, sci fi world seemed like a good place to start. The beginning was strong and I was sucked in [...]
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this in school but apparently didn’t remember much about it at all, which is why I decided to re-read it. There are a lot of unlikeable characters in this book and all the female characters seem needy and too reliant on [...]
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was picked for our office book club book for July, a pick that I’m glad about because I never would have read it otherwise. Cloud Atlas could be described as six interconnected novellas with a basic theme, but that’s putting it in the [...]
